Rohit Sharma walks out again at Bay Oval on Friday 13 November, twelve years to the day after the innings that remains the highest individual score in one-day international cricket. On 13 November 2014, Rohit Sharma scored 264 off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, with 33 fours and nine sixes. The innings went past Virender Sehwag’s 219 and remains the highest individual score in ODI history.
Rohit Sharma was returning from a finger injury that had kept him out for most of three months, and he played the innings in a series India had already wrapped up. The 264 was one of three ODI double centuries he has scored, the others 209 against Australia at Bengaluru in November 2013 and 208 not out against Sri Lanka in 2017. He is the only batter with three ODI double hundreds.
Rohit Sharma and the record that still stands
Rohit Sharma reached 264 off 173 balls, and the 33 fours and nine sixes in the innings added up to 186 runs in boundaries alone. Eden Gardens in Kolkata hosted the innings, and the knock came against a Sri Lanka attack in a series India had already won. Twelve years on, no batter has gone past the mark, and the innings is still the highest individual score in the 50-over format.
A Livemint piece noted that Rohit Sharma has scored every number from 0 to 50 in international cricket except one. The curiosity sits alongside a career built on large scores in all three formats, and the 264 remains the best-known entry in that record. The double centuries came across four years, from the 209 in Bengaluru in 2013 to the 208 not out against Sri Lanka in 2017.
His 50th international century came with 121 against Australia in Sydney on 25 October 2025, and his 51st was 138 against England at Lord’s on 19 July 2026. A 35th ODI hundred came against West Indies at Guwahati on 30 September 2026, when he made 101 off 75 balls. In that innings he also became the seventh batter and third Indian after Tendulkar and Kohli to reach 12,000 ODI runs, in 282 innings, the second-fastest ever.
Career numbers behind the 264
As of 3 October 2026, Rohit Sharma’s ODI record stood at 291 matches, 12,120 runs at 49.27, with 35 centuries and 63 half-centuries. The tally of international centuries stood at about 50-plus, with Cricscope counting 52 (12 Tests, 35 ODIs, 5 T20Is) as of 3 October 2026 and SportsAdda counting 51 (12 Tests, 34 ODIs, 5 T20Is) to 12 September 2026. He has hit 662 sixes in international cricket, the most by any batter, and scored five centuries at the 2019 World Cup.
Rohit Sharma retired from T20Is after India won the 2024 T20 World Cup and from Tests in May 2025, and he now plays only ODIs. The change of focus has left the 50-over game as the one format in which he still plays international cricket, and the current series against New Zealand is his latest assignment in that format.
Rohit Sharma in the current New Zealand series
In the current New Zealand series he was out for 0 in the first ODI at Auckland on 4 November and made 23 in the second at Wellington. The third ODI in Hamilton was washed out without a ball being bowled. Rohit Sharma walks out again at Bay Oval for the fourth ODI on 13 November, twelve years to the day after the 264.
The fourth ODI starts at 7:30 AM IST, with Shreyas Iyer leading India for the first time in the format after Shubman Gill left the squad for Test duty. India lead the five-match series 2-0, and a win at Mount Maunganui would seal the series with one match left. The fifth ODI is on Sunday 15 November.
Twelve years after 264 off 173 balls at Eden Gardens, the innings still heads the list of ODI scores, and the batter who made it is still playing ODIs for India. The fourth ODI at Bay Oval is the next match in that story, and it falls on the same date as the innings itself.